A Personal Injury Lawyer Blog

In a prior post, I explored the question whether private monopolists, such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google should be subject to a nondiscrimination requirement. I argued that a strong case could be made (assuming they were monopolists) for the legitimacy of subjecting them to such...

Race continues to determine the length of sentences received for offenses of all kinds in the federal system, according to a new analysis by the United States Sentencing Commission.
In its third study of the subject since 2010, the Commission found that African-American male offenders were...

Connecticut Supreme Court justices spent more than 90 minutes Tuesday peppering attorneys for Remington and victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre with questions about the merits of a lawsuit filed by the families seeking to hold the gun manufacturer liable for Adam Lanza’s...

Briefly:
Subscript offers a graphic explainer for SAS Institute Inc. v. Matal, which asks whether the board adjudicating challenges to existing patents via the inter partes review process must issue a final written decision with regard to all of the claims raised by a challenger.
At Legal...

On a 144-9 vote, the Massachusetts House on Tuesday passed its most sweeping criminal justice bill in years, aimed at reducing recidivism by paring back mandatory-minimum sentences and making it easier for some convicts to obtain employment and housing, reports the Boston Globe. At the...

The lessons of Vietnam long ago became a cliché in American political debate. It provided a shorthand for mistakes to avoid or overcome. Successfully driving Saddam Hussein from Kuwait in 1991, at minimal cost in lives and money, appeared to lift the United States from...

The petition of the day is:
Silver v. United States
17-562
Issues: (1) Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1957 requires the government to trace funds in a transaction involving a withdrawal from a commingled account, precluding a conviction where the account contains sufficient clean funds to cover the transfer;...

A local news station in Philadelphia reports on a recent gastrointestinal outbreak on the Royal Caribbean Anthem of the Seas.
ABC-6 reports that a family from Philadelphia returned from a 7-night cruise aboar the Anthem which departed Cape Liberty, New Jersey on Saturday, November 4th. The...

Bloomberg published an article today titled Why the Cruise Industry Is Booming in the Middle East.
The lighthearted article casually mentions that passengers on the "fancy, all-inclusive Seabourn Encore were enjoying martinis and opera around the pool" off the coast of Somalia "where pirates occasionally hijack...

We’re about a week out from the annual gorge-fest known as Thanksgiving, the top of the inevitable slide toward the New Year. I find this time of year a blur business-wise, with many people’s minds on everything but work.
But who said these things have to...